All Things ConsideredBayou Sinkhole WoesLouisiana officials are grappling with a giant sinkhole that's threatening a neighborhood in Assumption Parish. A salt mine collapsed last year, creating a host of problems that regulators have never seen before. Oil and gas is bubbling up two miles from the site, tremors are shaking the region, and the sinkhole now covers nine acres. Residents who've been evacuated for more than nine months now want the mining company, Texas Brine, to buy them out.

Radio SpecialsIntelligence Squared U.S.'America Doesn't Need a Strong Dollar Policy' -- It's often taken for granted that America needs a strong dollar. When the value of the U.S. dollar is strong relative to other currencies, it becomes attractive to investors and allows Americans to buy foreign goods and services cheaply. But in times of recession, are we better off with a weak dollar that stimulates U.S. manufacturing by making our goods cheaper and more competitive? Or will the loss of purchasing power and currency manipulation abroad, offset the potential gains?The Oxford-style debate program returns as panelists tackle the motion, "America doesn't need a strong dollar policy."

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Morning EditionA Poet Remembers the Iraq She LostPoet Dunya Mikhail left her home in Iraq during the Gulf War. She has never returned. She says memories of her home, good and bad, come back to her in fragments.

ForumDevil's Slide Tunnels Set to OpenAfter nearly five decades and $439 million, the new Highway 1 bypass at Devil's Slide is set to open March 25. The bypass avoids a section of highway between Pacifica and Montara known for multiple landslides and deadly car accidents. The twin tunnels, which extend through San Pedro Mountain, will be the first new highway tunnels to open in California in nearly 50 years. They feature state-of-the-art technology with huge exhaust fans and carbon monoxide sensors. We discuss the tunnels' construction and the environmental and political roadblocks its proponents met along the way.

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ForumFirst Person: Rose PakRose Pak has been called the most powerful woman in San Francisco. Many credit the Chinatown political activist with being the kingmaker behind Mayor Ed Lee's election, and the person most responsible for the increasing political power of Asian-Americans in the city. Pak joins us as part of our First Person series, profiling the leaders, innovators and others that make the Bay Area unique.

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Science FridayTurning Failing Schools AroundOn August 22, 2011, Principal Tanishia Williams-Minor launched DC Met's school year. And from that day forward, teachers and administrators worked to keep at-risk kids in class and on track to graduate. Williams-Minor and others join guest host Celeste Headlee.

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Science FridayWhat Foster Parents Wish Others KnewKaren Stron and her husband took in dozens of children, and know the transition to a foster home can be rocky. "This is the last place they want to be," she says. "They're upset, and now they're put with strangers." It can be tough for the foster parents too, who deal with a lot of assumptions about who they are and why they do it.

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Fresh AirThe Hottest Year on RecordLast year was the hottest year on record in the U.S. Journalist Justin Gillis joins the show to talk about his New York Times series "Temperature Rising," which examines the latest research on climate change. He says mainstream scientists don't know exactly how bad it's going to get -- and they don't know how fast it's going to get that way, either.

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WorldFighting PTSD With a PenVeteran Ron Capps served in five wars within 10 years, and post-traumatic stress disorder was killing him. But writing about his experiences seemed to help. Now, he helps veterans tell their own stories.

MarketplaceCapitalizing on March MadnessHost Kai Ryssdal talks to Stephen Dubner about how TV networks capitalize on broadcasting sports events like the NCAA tournament.

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Fresh AirThe Hottest Year on RecordLast year was the hottest year on record in the U.S. Journalist Justin Gillis joins the show to talk about his New York Times series "Temperature Rising," which examines the latest research on climate change. He says mainstream scientists don't know exactly how bad it's going to get -- and they don't know how fast it's going to get that way, either.

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Radio SpecialsHumankindThe Diet-Climate Connection -- Understanding the footprint of what we eat is a revelation for many of us who contact our food not in the sunlit fields, but in the fluorescent-lit aisle of the grocery store. And people concerned about climate change are just starting to focus on the large but under-appreciated role our food system plays in the problem. The program talks with health experts, climate scientists and the emerging movement of urban farmers who grow their own food in sustainable ways.

ForumFirst Person: Rose PakRose Pak has been called the most powerful woman in San Francisco. Many credit the Chinatown political activist with being the kingmaker behind Mayor Ed Lee's election, and the person most responsible for the increasing political power of Asian-Americans in the city. Pak joins us as part of our First Person series, profiling the leaders, innovators and others that make the Bay Area unique.